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ascent
English
Etymology
Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophone: assent
- Hyphenation: as?cent
Noun
ascent (countable and uncountable, plural ascents)
- The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
- He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
- The way or means by which one ascends.
- There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
- An eminence, hill, or high place.
- The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
- The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
- (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
- An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
Translations
Anagrams
- casten, enacts, scante, secant, stance
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ascend
English
Etymology
From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascend? (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scand? (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
- Hyphenation: as?cend
Verb
ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)
- (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
- He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.
- (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
- (transitive) To go up.
- You ascend the stairs and take a right.
- (transitive) To succeed.
- She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
- To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
- Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.
- (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
Antonyms
- descend
Related terms
- ascent
- ascendant
- ascendance
- ascendancy/ascendency
- ascending
- ascender
- ascension
- transcend
Translations
See also
- climb
Further reading
- ascend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ascend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Dances, dances, decans, descan
French
Verb
ascend
- third-person singular present indicative of ascendre
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